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Patron PicksMay 2016 Cheryl, Carol, Dean, Erin, Gillian, John, Judith, Kaye, Margaret, Margery, Melody, Stephanie, and Tiana participated in the adult reading programs and offer these suggested titles.
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At the water's edge : a novel
by Sara Gruen
Call Number: F Gruen
While her brother, Ellis, and his friend attempt to find the Loch Ness Monster in an attempt to get back into her father's good graces, Maddie is left on her own in World War II-era Scotland and experiences a social awakening. By the New York Times best-selling author of Water of Elephants.
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Blueprints : a novel
by Barbara Delinsky
Call Number: F Delinsky
The bond between a talented carpenter and her architect daughter is challenged by a career-shifting network decision, a family death, sudden parenting responsibilities and changing romantic prospects. By the New York Times best-selling author of Sweet Salt Air.
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The bone tree
by Greg Iles
Call Number: F Iles
A follow-up to Natchez Burning finds Southern lawyer Penn Cage desperately struggling to protect his father from false charges and corrupt officers by confronting the puppet master behind the Double Eagles terrorist group.
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Broken : a novel
by Karin Slaughter
Call Number: F Slaughter
Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton and Georgia Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Will Trent have their work cut out for them when the prime suspect in a shoreside murder winds up dead in his holding cell. By the best-selling author of A Faint Cold Fear.
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Dreamfever : a novel
by Karen Marie Moning
Call Number: F Moning
A latest work by the RITA-winning author of Faefever finds Atlanta suburb resident MacKayla Lane discovering her ability to see into the realm of the Fae after the devastating murder of her sister and attracting the unwanted attention of Seelie, a vampire, and human assassins.
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The enemy : a Reacher novel
by Lee Child
Call Number: F Child
Former army cop Jack Reacher finds himself questioning the instincts that made him an elite soldier when his latest case forces him to choose between obeying the law and becoming a renegade
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Finders keepers : a novel
by Stephen King
Call Number: F King
A follow-up to Mr. Mercedes follows the experiences of an irate fan whose obsession with a reclusive writer leads to an act of violence, the discovery of a hidden manuscript decades later and a young boy's desperate struggle for survival. By a #1 New York Times best-selling author.
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Goodnight nobody : a novel
by Jennifer Weiner
Call Number: F Weiner
Having relocated to an alienating Connecticut suburb after a mugging in her native New York City, wife and mother Kate Klein struggles to fit in with her discriminating new neighbors and undertakes a murder investigation during her children's school hours when a local mom is killed. By the author of Little Earthquakes.
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In plain sight
by Fern Michaels
Call Number: F Michaels
For years Myra Rutledge and Annie de Silva, founding members of the Sisterhood, have funded an underground network run by former Supreme Court Justice Pearl Barnes to help women escape abusive relationships. When two of Pearl's clients fail to report for their weekly check-in, the Sisterhood and their allies begin a search for French model Amalie Laurent and her one-time maid, Rosalee Muno. Amalie's estranged husband, Lincoln Moss, has a violent streak he hides from the world, and he beat Amalie viciously until she finally escaped with her maid's help. .
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The job : a Fox and O'hare novel
by Janet Evanovich
Call Number: F Evanovich
A latest entry in the series by the author of the Stephanie Plum novels and the author of the Monk series finds Agent O'Hare reluctantly partnering with con-man Nicolas Fox to take down a big-league criminal. Simultaneous.
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Shirley Jones : a memoir
by Shirley Jones
Call Number: B Jones
A candid account by the Oscar-winning stage, screen and television star reveals lesser-known facts about her two marriages, wild sexual escapades, high-risk brushes with the law and relationships with The Partridge Family castmates.
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Sleepyhead
by Mark Billingham
Call Number: M Billingham
When a victim of a deliberately induced stroke is discovered, completely aware of her surroundings but unable to move or communicate, Detective Tom Thorne is horrified to learn that the attacker's intention is to leave his victims hanging between life and death.
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Wolf Hall : a novel
by Hilary Mantel
Call Number: F Mantel
Assuming the power recently lost by the disgraced Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell counsels a mercurial Henry VIII on the latter's efforts to marry Anne Boleyn against the wishes of Rome and many of his people, a successful endeavor that comes with a dangerous price. By the Hawthornden Prize-winning author of Eight Months on Ghazzah Street.
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